Sleeping With The Moon Goddess

Broken

Ian helped lower me down onto the mat, as I was no longer able to stand as the exhaustion and pain came crashing back over me in such horrible waves that I thought I would vomit.

The next thing I could feel was Aiden’s arms gently scooping me up and placing me against his chest and Damien’s hands lightly caressing the side of my head, careful not to touch my injuries. I could feel their bodies trembling and I am pretty sure they were trying to talk to me, but I could make out none of it; the pain was deafening.

I slightly heard Ian and Damien talking

“She has several fractures and clean breaks, but I was careful not to shatter any bone. She’s a tough one man,” Ian said.

“She certainly is,” Damien replied, before Aiden reached the top of the stairs.

Aiden carried me up the rest of the stairs to our room and sat down on the bed, keeping me held against his chest, while Damien went and filled up the Jacuzzi.

A few minutes later, the Jacuzzi was ready, and a naked Damien came over and, very carefully, he tore at my clothes leaving them to fall onto the floor in pieces, which was fine. They were all shredded and bloody anyway. Once my clothes were off, Aiden carefully handed me over so that he could get undressed as well.

Damien went over to the Jacuzzi and got in, still standing with me in his hands. Aiden quickly joined us.

“Baby girl, this is going to hurt, but the warm water will help soothe your muscles.”

Slowly, he lowered us down into the water, and it felt like acid had been poured into all my cuts. I cried out, not realizing that I could physically be in any more pain than what I already was.

“Breathe, princess. It will go away in a few seconds,”

He was right. I focused on my breathing and the burning pain subsided. I tried my best to relax against my mates’ chest, the mate bond was calming and it helped with the pain. Without moving my head, I reached my arm out for Aiden; I needed to be touching him too, I needed both of them to feel complete.

He grabbed my hand, “I’m right here princess, I’m right here.” he placed feather light kisses up and down my arm and Damien kissed and caressed my forehead.

After a few minutes, Aiden started inspecting my injures; 13 broken bones, some major and some minor, 23 gashes, and multiple bruises.

Normally, my cuts would be healing by now, but since there are so many of them, and the fact that I lost quite a bit of blood, they are taking longer, some of the smaller fractures should heal by tonight and the larger ones will heal tomorrow.

“I am so sorry, baby girl.” Damien said with his head gently resting on top of mine.

I tried speaking for the first time, my voice was weak, and it hurt to talk. Looking at my mates, I could tell that they were nervous, scared almost of how I would feel towards them. “I understand now why you guys didn’t want to teach me yourselves.”

“Only Damien, Ian and myself are allowed to train others this way; but Damien and I could never bring ourselves to cause you pain like that, so we asked Ian if he would be willing.”

“At first, I was scared. I have never been in a real fight before or felt that much pain, but once I did what he said and figured out to hand over my pain and tap into my wolf like that, it was surreal. I didn’t even know that was a thing we could even do.”

“Very few people are able to create that channel, even some of the elite warriors who I’ve allowed to train have been unsuccessful; but you were incredible baby girl. You impressed the hell out of us, even Ian. Most warriors fail and we have to call it after about 30-45 minutes.”

“Well, how long were we at it?”

“You fought him for almost two hours, princess.”

“Oh, is that all?” my sarcasm helped bring a small smile to their faces, “It felt longer” I tried to sit myself up a little bit, bad idea. “I never would have imagined that side of Ian; he was cold, scary even.”

“Ian is one of the most ruthless, controlled fighters that I have ever witnessed. Most are right to be frightened of him; but you baby girl, never have anything to fear with him I promise you that.”

“Learning to give your pain completely over to your wolf while simultaneously pulling from their strength is incredibly powerful if you can master it, it can make you unstoppable in a fight; unfortunately, the only way to learn is to literally break the body and mind down.” Aiden added, and I knew that he was right.

“Thank you,” I whispered.

“For what princess?”

“For having Ian teach me. Even though I feel like I want to die right now,” I flash them a small smile “I do feel stronger and more in touch with my wolf. Also, that couldn’t have been easy for you guys to watch; just watching you guys hurt each other when you sparred the first time made me anxious.”

“I can tell you that that was the worst thing that I have ever had to do. I would rather fight 100 rogues than watch you go through that; but I couldn’t not have been there for you baby girl.”

“You are so strong, princess; you might even be able to take me and Damien here before you know it.” He says as he gives me a wink. “We are so proud of you.”

“I was a little surprised that you let Ian man handle me like that on the floor though!” I said with a laugh.

Aiden let out a growl, “Wasn’t exactly my choice”, he said through a tight jaw, eyeing Damien.

“As much as I wanted to kill him for it with the idea, I knew he was right, and if any other man is going to be tough on you like that, Ian is the only other person that I would trust.”

“Yeah, I’ll thank him later for feeling up my mate,” now it was Aiden’s turn to be sarcastic.

“Well, I also have Ian’s wolf to thank. I think he helped me. I was trying to reach out to my wolf when I’m pretty sure I felt Ian’s wolf in my head, after that, it became easier.” I added, ignoring his sarcasm.

Damien and Aiden looked at each other, “ Oh that’s great,” Aiden mumbled under his breath.

“Are you sure, baby girl?”

“Yeah, I think so. Why? Is that a bad thing?” suddenly regretting telling them that.

I look between them and notice their pupils dilating as they mind-link back and forth with one another. I open up my senses and somehow listen in, like I’ve been able to do before. One of my other unexplained ‘gifts’ from the Moon Goddess.

“We don’t know that for sure.”

“How could his wolf have helped her? That shouldn’t be possible, they don’t have a bond.”

“You know just as well as I do, that breaking down someone’s body and wolf like that can create a temporary bond of sorts. And we’ve never trained anyone that hard before. Maybe his wolf was able to use it and reach out to her wolf that way?”

“So, what kind of bond are we talking about here?” I say out loud and immediately love the look on their faces when they remember their ‘private’ conversations aren’t exactly private around me.

“Uhh, well, we’re not exactly sure.” Aiden finally replied, “It’s only happened twice before and only with men since we’ve never allowed a female to go through that, but I guess. . . .”

“It’ll be fine. Everything will be back to normal in a few days.” Damien says, cutting him off. “I think we’ve soaked long enough, how are you feeling baby girl?”

I tried to stretch out my muscles slightly but wince at the smallest of movements. “Umm, maybe a little better?” Well, it was kind of true, I at least had stopped crying.

“Let’s get you to bed so you can rest; we have nothing planned for the next two days except movie marathons with lots of cuddling.” Aiden says, gently running his thumb over my busted lower lip, before leaning down and just barely placing his lips over mine.

We finally get settled into bed with me in the middle and my mates on both sides of me, each gently rubbing my arm or my side. They flip through Netflix and decide on a new series for us to start watching. I don’t even remember what it was because I was asleep within a few minutes.

I woke up several hours later, judging by how the sun was now going down, and I felt a little better. That sleep did me good, but mainly I was starving. My stomach growled at the thought of food catching their attention.

“Hey, you’re awake, how are you feeling?” Aiden asks.

But before I can even answer, “Does this mean I can finally go get food?!” Damien asks excitedly.

“Wait, why haven’t you guys eaten yet?”

“You needed to sleep, and we know the mate bond helps with your pain, so we didn’t want to leave you. We thought we would just wait until you woke up.”

I truly did not deserve such caring and wonderful mates, tears threatened to fall from my eyes.

“Hey baby girl, what’s wrong? Do you hurt?” Damien asked as they both look at me concerned.

“No, well I mean yes I do still hurt – like a lot, but I just love you guys so much.” Both of my mates suddenly attacked me with gentle and soft kisses all over my body in between multiple sayings of ‘I love you’.

After a few seconds, my stomach growled again, “So about food?” I said with a laugh.

“Right! Let me go down to the kitchen and I'll just bring up everything we have!” Damien yelled over his shoulder as he was already halfway out of the bedroom, making a beeline for the kitchen.

Damien brought back a feast! There was so much food. They took turns helping me eat, for I refused to just be fed like a baby. After I was completely stuffed, I snuggled back between my mates and once again fell asleep and drifted off into a very vivid and detailed dream state.